Monday, July 26, 2010

Nothing But Sex by Fran Lee

Lee Blackhorse is hardly Cougar material, no matter what her friends over at Tempt the Cougar say. A forty-two-year-old woman who lusts after her thirty-year-old weekend helper is just plain nuts. Or is she? Mike Running Elk is the sexiest thing ever to don tight jeans and a second-skin t-shirt. She’s secretly yearned for the man for years.

Mike has no problem seeing himself in the role of Lee’s lover. In fact, if he can just get the hot-as-hell woman to realize he’s plenty old enough to ring her bells, he plans to do more than just clean her barn and mow her grass. He’s waited for her long enough.

When Mike shows up at her door with an injured hand, he notices Lee can’t pull her eyes off his naked, ripped chest. Mike can’t believe she’s as oblivious as she acts. The ice has been broken and he intends to heat things up even more…

We think of dirty old men all the time but rarely do we hear "dirty old lady". Yet that’s the way Lee Blackhorse thinks of herself at times. Lee thought she was crazy to have sexual thoughts just from hearing the “kid’s” voice. Never mind that the “kid” in question is thirty years old and Lee is but forty-two. I can see why her thoughts run this way, especially when you hire the kid to do yard work and then watch him grow-up for twelve years.

Lee posts her feelings on a blog and gets quite a bit of advice. I love how the Tempt the Cougars URL plays a role in the book. Many of the posts parallel situations in the Cougar Series. Just too good.

Mike Running Elk thought he wasn’t a hot stud like Lee’s slime ball ex and calls her ma’am all the time. If I ever meet Mike, I would put him straight. Yes, Lee’s ex, a Michael Ansara type, might have been considered hot but he is a drunken, washed up, has-been who is now very much over the hill.

The story really gets rolling when Mike injures himself working. O.M.G. I just could not stop chuckling when Lee returned to the bathroom to get Mike to take him to the hospital. That was one great way to get a point across.

The time that Mike and Lee cared for each other and the depth of their love was brilliantly shown in this beautiful romance that showed me there is no such thing as a "dirty old lady", just a wonderful, caring woman.

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